I have a really practical example. I would argue that there is greater protection under a PPP procurement, and the reason is that there's so much at risk for proponents. There was a federal contract that we recently won for the Communications Security Establishment Canada project. It's a billion dollar plus project, and we had probably $4 million to $5 million of bid costs at risk. If you think I'm going to risk $4 million or $5 million of our own money by going and lobbying someone that I shouldn't be lobbying.... It's a huge deterrent.
I would argue that Canada stands above many countries in the world—we've looked at other countries around the world—and it is as clean as it gets, because you're just not prepared to risk that kind of money for the lobbying effort.
With respect to the sunshine and the transparency, there's an unknown little bit of information that I'll point my research colleagues to. All of these deals are publicly rated, because they're typically financed with bonds, and all of the detailed financials for the projects are available through S&P ratings directly, or whoever did the ratings report. So it's all publicly available if you dig deep enough.